Defying Ann Coulter

http://www.intellectualconservative.com ^ | Thursday, 19 September 2002 | Brian S. Wise

[DainBramage]

What exactly did she say about the Kennedy clan that wasn't based in fact Brian? You need to start writing a little more frankly, like she does, not the other way around

America is tired of condoning the filth we have for leaders as role models. She is speaking the truth, and in your heart you know it, you just don't have the guts to say it in print.

[cactusSharp]

you go Ann.......when they write like this,
you are doing your God given responsibility

[RAY]

Probably on about 10% of the public understands and put in the right perspective Ann Coulter's statements. The politically correct crowd will never like her statements.

[BrianS.Wise]

I said that: "(and there's nothing but truth in it)"

[VRW Conspirator]

...Those who appreciate Coulter (I am one) cannot help but...

heh-heh

[jraven]

She's way off the deep end and, it's true, using the SAME demonization tactics she decries in liberals. So she pleases those who agree with her but if anyone is wavering she turns them off. I would think liberals would WANT to have her appear since she loses converts to conservatism who are not into the same kind of demonization that liberals do to conservatives. Her credibility goes down each day. I read and enjoyed her book -- but I think it has been downhill from there. What if someone a liberal columnist had jokingly said he only wished McVeigh could have blown up Fox News instead or the Weekly Standard instead. It's ironic because Slander is a great title and, for a lot of it, a great book -- but it's the pot calling the kettle black. She uses the same tactics as those she critizes. And I am a FAN of Sean Hannity, Micheal Savage, etc. The fact many conservatives defend her scorched earth style would I assume mean that these same folks think it's fine when James Carville & Crew do the same thing. You can't take the high moral ground if your crawling in the gutter with those who are already in the gutter.

[martin_fierro]

bares mentioning

Hey, Mr. Intellectual: Check your spelling.

[BrianS.Wise]

OH NO! Dammit!

[Dan De Quille]

generally speaking, much too plaintive and soft spoken for its own good, that refuses to recognize the rest of the world has modernized while it hasn’t, that will not face its opposition (liberalism) in the same manner in which it is continuously treated.

Boy, have you got that right. We need a few more Ann Coulters.

[DainBramage]

You also said this:

Problem is, the more managing editors she alienates, the less likely it is Coulter will be taken seriously, and the damage done then is not only to her reputation, but to conservatism in general

And its not true. Her message is spreading far and wide and striking a chord in hearts like your and mine all across America. It's just that Trent Lott, and the rest of our limp wristed Repub leaders have never stood up like this and spoken the truth, so the liberal editors are trying to call it a foul, when in reality ...it is reality.

I don't mean to come off harsh towards you personally, as I realize that she is in the financial position to risk it all, and you might not be. I know she is wrong sometimes, but never a detriment to our cause.

[BrianS.Wise]

Thanks, Dan.

[BrianS.Wise]

No harshness detected. The idea is for the columns to be read and reacted to.

[sport]

Some people just can't handle the truth.

[joesbucks]

Couldn't have been better said. Ann is to conservatives what Begala and Carvile are to liberals in terms of public appearance. They are red meat people......and truly are just mirrors of each other.

[joesbucks]

Brain....good article. If you took Ann's name off and put a liberals in, you'd be getting applause from the same folks who are now jeering.

You've pretty much hit the nail on the head.

[TLBSHOW]

Ann would not be Ann if she took your advise.

[narby]

I saw the interview on O'Reilly with the editor of this paper. I don't believe a word he says.

He claims that his paper has gotten thousands of message about their cancelling Coulters column, and the vast majority were in favor of it.

People don't take the trouble to send a newspaper a message unless they're mad. There's no way that many people took up the trouble to send a congratulatory message to the paper. Unless it was orchestrated by DU, in which case, the editor's point is invalid.

What I'd like to know is how many e-mails, and what do they say now? After this has been brought out by O'Reilly.

I personally think there's an effort to rid the world of Coulter, as they attempted to do to Rush, after she trashed the NYTimes so well in her book.

[dark_lord]

I think Ann is useful. You are correct in that the conservative position has been too...intellectual, too restrained, too polite in many respects. To get the liberal media to notice, we need a few Ann's - the conservative answer to Carville the ugly snapping turtle.

It is too bad we don't have 2 or three others just like Ann - over the top and in their face. It gets read, and the fact is, it is an ideological battle here. Which I think you recognize.

[independentmind]

She's way off the deep end and, it's true, using the SAME demonization tactics she decries in liberals. So she pleases those who agree with her but if anyone is wavering she turns them off. I would think liberals would WANT to have her appear since she loses converts to conservatism who are not into the same kind of demonization that liberals do to conservatives.

Bravo. At last someone gets it. Why do you think that the mainstream press only features bellicose conservatives? Most conservative pundits appear to be caricatures of the real thing.

She uses the same tactics as those she critizes. And I am a FAN of Sean Hannity, Micheal Savage, etc. The fact many conservatives defend her scorched earth style would I assume mean that these same folks think it's fine when James Carville & Crew do the same thing. You can't take the high moral ground if your crawling in the gutter with those who are already in the gutter.

Yes , but she looks sooo goood in all of the glam shots which are plastered all over FR. I wonder what she was thinking when she posed for them.